Happy birthday America! While it's not our classic view of patriotism and celebrating, holiday weekends have become shopping weekends, so big retail chains are discounting merchandise to earn your business. Big ticket items like appliances and even cars may see discounts over the coming five days.

Kansas is 18-2 and ranked No. 2 in the nation, and Bill Self has the Jayhawks on track for their seventh No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament during his tenure. However, Self is unhappy with his team's defense , and relative to the standards expected of a Jayhawks D, the numbers bear out the coach's

There haven't been many races in the history of the John R. Wooden Award as fun to watch and tantalizingly close as last year's between two seniors, Michigan State's Denzel Valentine and eventual winner Buddy Hield ?of Oklahoma. Maybe this season won't be able to match the seemingly back-and-forth

What is #CBBrank? #CBBrank is the Twitter hashtag to use if you want to get involved in the discussion or just follow along. How did we rank the players? We asked our wide range of college basketball writers, editors and analysts to rate players based on their expected contributions for the 2016

What is #CBBrank? #CBBrank is the Twitter hashtag to use if you want to get involved in the discussion or just follow along. How did we rank the players? We asked our wide range of college basketball writers, editors and analysts to rate players based on their expected contributions for the 2016

Editor's note: The 2016-17 college basketball season will be the "Year of the Freshmen," ?featuring what could be the best class we've ever seen. Over the next two weeks, we will get familiar with the best of the best, examining who they are and where each of the top 10 prospects in the 2016 ESPN

You know what was fun? May 25. Or, if you prefer, Draft Decision Day, which will surely be a commonplace proper noun in a year or two. Hanging back as the impact NBA entry decisions rolled in Wednesday felt like a much chiller version of European football's transfer deadline hysteria: less insane,